Levels of organic and inorganic mercury in human blood predicted from measurements of total mercury

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 674-679

  Halbach, Stefan ^a   Welzl, Gerhard ^a  

^a Helmholtz Research Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calculation; Erythrocytes; Human blood; Inorganic mercury; Mercury speciation; Organic mercury; Plasma

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC MERCURY; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; CALCULATION; CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXPOSURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MERCURY BLOOD LEVEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACE METAL BLOOD LEVEL;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICS; MERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 78049281923     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: 10991263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.1540     Document Type: Article

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